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White-marble slave girls languish alongside posturing tragedy heroines and cherubic children. Emanuel Leutze's classic, Washington Crossing the Delaware, looms in its full-size 264-sq.-ft. version. Tiffany lamps and cut-glass bowls of dazzling intricacy vie with gingerbread mantelpieces. At first glance the Metropolitan Museum's gargantuan exhibition of 19th century American art, architecture and decoration seems about as serious an undertaking as a rainy afternoon spent in grandmother's attic. On second look, it proves to be a well-planned, scholarly survey of an oft-disparaged, still underestimated century...
Violence is no stranger to Lawrence, a community of 40,000 in Kansas' eastern-border country. A century ago, m the bitter Border War over whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free, guerrilla bands moved back and forth across the Kansas-Missouri line, pillaging at will...
...proslave band sacked free-soil Lawrence in 1856; Abolitionist John Brown responded by massacring five alleged slave owners at nearby Osawatomie a few days later. In 1863, an outlaw band, led by the notorious William Clarke Quantrill, descended on the town like Attila's Huns. Before they left, they had burned most of the town and murdered 142 of its citizens...
Betty Byrne, as Ariel, the "light and airy spirit" who does Prospero's bidding, is active and agile in the part, and Roxana Proser, as Caliban, creates a growling, beastly slave. Kaarel Kaljot, who plays both Antonio and Stephano, the King of Naples' drunken butler is particularly expressive and imaginative in both roles, prancing and reeling as Stephano and striding somberly as Antonio...
...absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance." The essence of her view seems to be a sort of humane pessimism about violence. Dreams do not come true, she asserts with Marx. "The rarity of slave rebellions and uprisings among the disinherited and downtrodden is notorious; on the few occasions when they occurred, it was precisely 'mad fury' [in Sartre's phrase] that turned dreams into nightmares for everybody...